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@Hitch tate etmt @frn CHARLES MITCHELL AND MATTHEW MORIARTY, OF BANGOR, MAINE, ASSIGNORS TO CHARLES E. MITCHELL AND PHILANDER EVANS, OF THE SAME PLACE Letters Paten No. ,66.985, dated July s3, 18er.

IMPROVED MOUSTAGHE-GUARD.

TO ALL PERSONS TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS MAY COME:

Be it lknown that we, CHARLES E. MITCHELL and MATTHEW MORIAETY, ot Bangor, in the county of Penobscot, and State of Maine, have invented a new and useful Moustache-Guard for application to a glass tumbler or other drinking-vessel of like nature; and'we do hereby declare the-'same to be fully described in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a top view.

Figure 2, an under side view.

Figure 3, a, rear edge view.

Figure 4, a longitudinal section, and

Figure 5, an end elevation of it.

In such drawings, A denotes a plate provided with a notch, a', and a depression at one edge of it. To the under side of the said plate two wings or auxiliary plates B and C are applied, so aste turn on centre-pins at a a, near the termini of the notch. The two plates B C are connected by an elastic band of rubber, or a spring, b, encased in a. tube, c, fastened to the under side of the plate A. Furthermore, two studs d e are extended from each of the wing-plates B C in manner as represented. One of these studs, viz, that'. marked e, may he grooved lengthwise on its inner side, so as to hold a cushion or strip of rubber,f, inserted and fixed therein, such rubber being made to project from the stud e. short distance. The article so made is to he applied to a tumbler or cup for the purpose of guarding the moustache of a persons lip from contact with the liquid in the tumbler or cup'while the person may be in the act of drinking from the said tumbler or cup.

In applying the article to the drinking-vessel, the two studs dd are to he placed inside, and the other two, e e, outside'of it, the plates B C resting on the rim of such vessel. The contractile power of the spring will 'draw the studs e e on their cushions invclose contact with the outside surface of the vessel, and thereby hold the moustache-guard in place thereon.

- The guard may have but one auxiliary plate combined with the notched plate, in'which case two of the studs should project from the notched plate, and the spring for actuating the auxiliary plate should be'attached to the notched plate.

We claim the said moustache-guard or combination of the plate A and either one or two auxiliary plates B C and their studs d e, or the quivalents thereof, the said auxiliary plate or plates having one or more springs applied to it or them, to operate it or them as specied.

CHARLES E. MITCHELL, Witnesses: MATTHEW MORIARTY.

DANIEL SMITH, J r., R. B. STOVER. 

